Jewish thematic excursions

What is special?   During a special Jewish Kiev (4 hours) tour you will visit the main places where jewish culture and history have put a mark on Ukrainian history: Babyn Yar, Podol, the Old Great Synagogue, International Solomon University, houses where Sholom Aleikhem, Golda Meir and other world known personalities of Jewish culture lived. Description   We'd like to offer you a special tours around Ukraine with visiting of many places of interest connected with the history of Jews in this country. Jews have played and important part in the Ukraine history. Ukraine having being for a long time a country where a lot of people came to live to run away persecutions that existed in the European and Russian empire, the jewish communauty has been very large in different parts of Ukraine and has included very famous personnalities as Rabbi Nakhman (1772-1810) who founded Hassidism. As in many countries in Europe, the Jewish communauty story was also a long tragedy during the last century with the pogroms organised during the Russian empire and the civil war after WWI, the Shoah during nazi invasion and the soviet times.